What is the place of creativity in our classrooms?
How do we model and cultivate creativity?
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From Foreword:
"This book--through its structure of planning questions, categories of instructional strategies, and categories of technology--shows teachers how to think about using technology to help their students practice concepts, engage in higher-order thinking, and problem solve. In other words, it helps teachers help their students hone skills and knowledge that will help them for the rest of their lives. That is the ultimate goal of education.
(p. xii)
What will students learn?
Which strategies provide evidence of student learning?
Which strategies will help students acquire and integrate learning?
Which strategies will help students practice, review and apply learning?
(p. 10)
What do you Know? What do you want to Learn?
Use this form:
Use this spreadsheet to find each other's blogs and email addresses:
Choose a chapter in Using Technology With Classroom Instruction That Works that describes a set of instructional strategies relevant to your classroom.
Two blog entries from the list of Recommended Blogs.
A post about what you learned from the chapter that you might use in your classroom. Label the post "Classwork."
A post discussing the two blog posts you read. Did you find them interesting? Would you like to follow the blogs? Label the post "Classwork."
A post describing how you could use the "Four Important Practices" mentioned at the end of the Prensky "Turning on the Lights" article in your classroom. Label the post "Classwork."
For tomorrow:
If you have a digital camera please bring it in along with the cable that connects it to a computer.
If you have headphones or ear buds please bring them in tomorrow.
Table of Contents
Welcome & Introductions
Partner activity - Who are we? What are we passionate about regarding technology and education?Overview of the Course
Videos
Shift Happens / Did You Know? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMcfrLYDm2U)Web 2.0: The Machine is Us/ing Us by Michael Wesch
Getting Around On Your Mac
Intro to Mac OS X
Applications Overview
What Can You Connect to Your Mac?
Edutopia Video
Creatively Speaking, Part One: Sir Ken Robinson on the Power of the Imaginative MindDiscussion:
Text
From Foreword:"This book--through its structure of planning questions, categories of instructional strategies, and categories of technology--shows teachers how to think about using technology to help their students practice concepts, engage in higher-order thinking, and problem solve. In other words, it helps teachers help their students hone skills and knowledge that will help them for the rest of their lives. That is the ultimate goal of education.
(p. xii)
- What will students learn?
- Which strategies provide evidence of student learning?
- Which strategies will help students acquire and integrate learning?
- Which strategies will help students practice, review and apply learning?
(p. 10)What do you Know?
What do you want to Learn?
Use this form:
Use this spreadsheet to find each other's blogs and email addresses:
Sign up: Google account
Blogs
(See page 34 in the text)Create a blog at Blogger by Google
Getting started guide
K12 Online Conference 2007 Sessions
- "Sustained Blogging in the Classroom" by Jeff Utecht
Other blogging servicesRecommended Blogs
On a lighter note...
Assignments